Story Quotes - Page 3

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

The world is shaped by two things - stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

Some people don’t want to hurt your feelings.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book.

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

Whatever how much you know,
if you don’t know, who you are,
in what world you are living, or simply where you are,
and from where you came from.
Because if you do know, that's completely different story.
18.09.11

Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')